SvcHost and me...a question

[ManiacJoe]

2. SvcHost.exe is a wrapper for many background services in Windows.

The program itself does not do all that much. However, the DLLs (libraries) that it loads do all the work.

Most times multiple services will be running in a single instance of SvcHost.
Multiple instances of SvcHost.exe are used to run most of the background services.

Some services start and stop as needed. System startup time is where the startup of the services is most noticed.

If you log into an admin account, you can run the Services panel and see all the services available (some running, some not). If you know what you are doing, you can shut down any services you don't need.